Sitemap - 2023 - The Rabbi Schneeweiss Substack
Vayechi: Don’t Stop Working Or Else You’ll Die (Especially If You’re Not Jewish)
Vayigash: May [the Word of] God Be With You (Rough Draft)
Mikeitz: Self-Deprivation in Solidarity With Others Who Are Suffering
Chanukah 5784: Maimonian Doughnuts and My Current Understanding of Minhag
Asking for Miracles on Chanukah: Updated for 2023, in Light of the War with Hamas
Vayeishev: The Consequences of Tattling and Misguided Rebuke
Vayishlach: When Should the Righteous Bow Before the Wicked?
Vayeitzei: Hashem’s Love-Hate Relationship With Stone Monuments
Vayeitzei: Leah’s Thanksgiving Revolution
God of Time or Dog Eating Its Own Vomit? (a "The Stoic Jew Podcast" Crossover Post)
God of Time or Dog Eating Its Own Vomit? (a "Rabbi Schneeweiss Substack" Crossover Episode)
ADDENDUM: The Virgin Rivka - an Explanation of the Wild Drash
Chayei Sarah: The Virgin Rivka - Plain Pshat and Wild Drash
I Hereby Renounce My Personal Stance on Zionism
Matt Schneeweiss, the God of Time (Seneca - On the Shortness of Life)
Vayeira: A Lesson in Tznius from Lote's Daughters
Lech Lecha: Avraham’s Origin Story and the Torah’s Silence
Noach: Searching for Meaning in the Post-Diluvian Genealogy
Bereishis/Noah - Why God Hates Hamas (חמס and حماس)
Thoughts on the Role of Jewish Educators at a Time of War
The Beneficial Effects of Torah Wine on Metaphysical Heart Rate Recovery
Yom ha'Kippurim Round-up: 5775 - 5784
Shabbos Shuvah 5784: How to Do Teshuvah, Little by Little
Erev Rosh ha'Shanah 5784: Metaphysical Triage and My Complex Relationship With Selichos
A Stoic Approach to the Aseres Ymei Teshuvah (Aurelius - Meditations 5:11)
Aurelius and Rav Soloveitchik on the Problem with Vidui (Aurelius - Meditations 10.30)
Nitzavim: What Would Teshuvah Look Like If It Were Easy?
Ki Tavo: Lone Learning vs. Group Learning
Some Thoughts on Rabbi Moskowitz's Unveiling
How My First Week Went, Thanks in Part to Epictetus (Enchiridion 1, 7, 17, 21)
Stoic Jew Thoughts on the First Day at a New School
Ki Teitzei: Ramban - On Cruelty to Animals
Two MAJOR Professional/Life Updates for the 2023-2024 Academic Year
Shoftim: Trusting Hashem in Poverty and Jurisprudence
A Judean Ransacking of Roman Stoicism
Re’eh: The Meaning of Mixing Milk and Meat for a Modern Maimonidean
Know Thy (Sick) Self: Three Lessons from Recent Sick Days
Two Years (Plus) of Gratitude, 300 (Plus) Episodes, and Smashing Through Podcaster's Block (Plus)
Eikev: When Avodah Zarah Works (and Why)
Vaeschanan: Mezuzah – Caffeine for the Soul
The Sin of Columbus, Yehoyakim, and American Jewry
Devarim: The Idolatry of Showing Favoritism in Judgment
No Excuses in Talmud Torah: Ralbag’s Conclusion to Sefer Bamidbar
Freddie Mercury, Shadal, and the Crisis of Human Finitude
Freddie Mercury, Shadal, and the Crisis of Human Finitude
My Babylonian Zionism (and Why It Keeps Me in Far Rockaway)
Pinchas: The Biological Kohen (and Why I Identify as a Levi)
17th of Tammuz 5783: Which Tamid Ceased? (Part 1: Questions)
Personal (and Quasi-Political) Musings on the Fourth of July in Hawaii
Become the Best by Accepting that You Aren’t
Chukas: Ultra-Pure Cave Babies, Taylor Swift, and Enriched Uranium
On Why I Value 18Forty and the Orthodox Conundrum Podcasts
Octopuses, MDMA, and the Ecstasy of Torah
Korach: To Guard and Revere the Mikdash
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Shelach: That Time the Letter Yod Pleaded Before Hashem
Behaalosecha: The Shechinah Isn't a Dog Person
Behaalosecha: Moshe's View of Miracles
The Rabbi Schneeweiss Substack Update: Summer 2023
Naso: Confessing to an Omnipotent God
Bamidbar: Moshe's Non-Biological Sons
My Eulogy for Rabbi Moskowitz zt"l (5/30/22)
TSJ Interlude: “Where Have You Been?” Secret Episode, Instagram, and More!
Bamidbar: The Terminal Bachelorhood of Nadav and Avihu
Behar: The Prohibition to Free a Canaanite Slave
Bechukosai: Why are Women Worth Less than Men?
Emor: Why Judaism Punishes Converts
Emor: Does Hashem Hate Unibrows?
Kedoshim: Defining Rechilus (Gossip)
Tazria: Rambam’s Explanation for Why Milah is Done on the Eighth Day
Shemini: Why Can’t We Eat Bugs?
Vows to Hashem for Salvation and Gratitude (Seneca - Letters #73, 31)
Jewish Pedagogy: On Asking Stupid Questions
Memento Mori and True Human Empathy at the Seder
Pesach During the Holocaust (Aurelius – Meditations 4:49,8)
Avadim Hayinu: Would We Still Be Slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt?
Arbaah Banim: The Alternate Version of the Wise and Simple Sons
Maaseh b’Rebbi Eliezer: Abravanel’s Framing of Insomnia on Pesach Night
Tzav: Korban Todah – Thanking God with a Chametz and Matzah Party
Vayikra: Shadal's View of Korbanos
Musings on the Fact that There is No Article This Week
Vayakhel: The Meaning of the Mirror Donation
Blaming My Insomnia on Satan (Aurelius - Meditations 5:20)
Ki Tisa: Is Shabbos a Day of Simchah?
Megilas Esther: How Esther Stayed Religious
Purim, Providence, and 600 Days of Gratitude (Epictetus – Enchiridion 5,8,20; Discourses 1:6)
Mishpatim: The Sanctuary-Altar Sanctuary (or Mizbeach as Refuge for Killers)
Mishpatim: Does Hashem Reward Good Dogs?
Three Models of Grieving: Aurelius, Epictetus, and Rambam (Epictetus - Enchiridion 3)
Spectral Clergy, Living Torah, and My Izzet Grieving Process
Thoughts on the Seventh Morning
Thoughts on Yesterday’s Shivah Call in Detroit
My Eulogy for Adira Koffsky z"l (2004-2023)
Beshalach: Was Miriam a Prophetess?
Bo: The Jewish Lunar Calendar as Anti-Egyptian Polemic
Shemos: Dasan and Aviram – to Blame or Not to Blame?
Reflections on My 39th Birthday, New Years 2023, and 2nd Semester (Seneca – Letter #83)